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Brightwood, Hughes Memorial Tower

Coordinates:
38°57'46" N, 77°01'35" W ; Ground Elevation AMSL: 288 ft (87.7 m), Antenna Height: 761 ft (232 m)
The Hughes Memorial Tower is a radio tower located in Washington, D.C. at 6001 Georgia Avenue, near the intersection of 9th Street, NW, and Peabody Street, NW. Built on January 15, 1989, the tower is owned by the D.C. Office of Property Management. It is used to propagate the WDCW Channel 50 television signal, WCSP C-SPAN Radio 90.1 FM, NOAA Weather Radio WNG736 and for radio communication by the Washington, D.C. police department on the 460 MHz frequency band. Standing at 761 ft (232 m) tall, the tower's height surpasses that the Washington Monument by more than 200 ft (61 m) and the WTTG Television Tower by 55 ft (17 m). The tower is a three-legged, free-standing star tower, similar to the Mesquite Tower in Dallas, TX, Star Tower in Cincinnati, OH and on Poor Mountain, VA. A small version of the tower can be found atop the Energy Plaza skyscraper in downtown Dallas, used by TXU for its communications needs.

Tenleytown, Fort Reno Park, WJLA-TV Tower

Coordinates:
38°57'01" N, 77°04'46" W ; Ground Elevation AMSL: 410 ft (125 m), Antenna Height: 705 ft (214.8 m)
The Tenleytown neighborhood in the northwest of the U.S. capital is home to the highest point in Washington, Fort Reno's Point Reno. Due to the high altitude, the neighborhood is home to nearly all of the city's radio and television towers.